Translated material
Cousin is rudeness
The British consulate is not sure that Julia Skripal wants to see his cousin Victoria. This is stated in the notification of the refusal of the visa, which the BBC got acquainted with. Victoria Skripal, niece of ex-colonel GRU Sergey Skripal, poisoned in Salisbury with her daughter, was going to visit them in the hospital.
"A) there is no evidence that you have already visited Sergei and Julia Skripal in the UK. B) Currently, Sergey Skripal cannot receive guests. C) There is no certainty that Julia Skripal wants your visit," the letter from the consular department says.
In addition, Victoria Skripal did not prove that she has funds for road expenses and stay in Britain, which may drag on. In the questionnaire, she indicated that it does not work anywhere, has neither savings nor sponsors.
At the same time, the Russian embassy in London issued a certificate that Victoria Skripal was ready to provide comprehensive assistance - to settle in a guest house at the embassy, to provide transport and translator. To whom the document is addressed is not specified. Earlier, the embassy expressed the hope that "the British authorities, guided by humanitarian considerations, will promptly give out the visa of" Victoria Skripal.
Victoria Skripal herself told the BBC that she got a job and intends to re-seek a visa: “Well, I am already working on Monday and I have money on the account. I’ll try to give a request to me again. And I have a power of attorney from my grandmother to make Sergey Viktorovich (Skripal.-Ed.).”
“Apparently, Russia uses Victoria as a pawn,” the BBC quotes a source in the British government. “If it fell under the influence of the Kremlin or the Kremlin forces it to something, it also became a victim.”
“We strongly urge Great Britain to officially make a statement and explain about what is happening with a visa for Victoria Skripal,” the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on Friday. “This is a complete uniform outrage - that we see when a country that is expressed according to any aspect of Russian domestic policy, for some reason refuses to issue a British visa in such circumstances.”
According to Zakharova, the British authorities "are obliged to find the strength and officially speak out about at least this aspect." "There is an emergency that Russian citizens in the UK fell. We are talking about their lives. None of Russia has any access to them. And at the moment we do not understand what is happening with the access or underpare of the relative to this family," she said.
“Each country, of course, has the right to issue or not give a visa, it is a sovereign right,” Zakharova added. “But taking into account the fact that Great Britain accused the Russian Federation of actually attacking the Skripals, the British Prime Minister in parliament has repeatedly expressed, in our opinion, the Victoria Skripal Skripal’s Visa is,”
On Thursday, Russian television distributed an audio recording of Victoria Skripal's telephone conversation with her cousin Julia, daughter of Sergei Skripal, who was injured with him in Salisbury from a nervous substance. It was emphasized that the channel cannot confirm the authenticity of the record. Presumably Julia Skripal tells the cousin that he is unlikely to give a British visa. Victoria Skripal said that she did not trust the conclusions of the British authorities. According to her, they creaked in Salisbury could be poisoned by seafood.
Julia Skripal left coma last week. On Friday, it became known that her father also survived after the assassination of March 4, his condition is rapidly improving.